If your mother was ugly…

Many speakers at the meeting, according to the report, said the city should move back to the old City Hall on Monument Square, because doing so would be the cheapest option. The led Councilman Michael LoPorto, who is always good for a terrific quote, to say that he will oppose tearing down the starkly modern building, pictured above and below.

“If your mother was ugly, would you shoot her?” LoPorto said, according to the paper.

Troy left the Monument Square building earlier this year for a (perhaps temporary) location on Sixth Avenue.

Chris Churchill

2 Responses

Although I am one of those people who did, unfortunately, choose to shoot his ugly mother, I nonetheless agree with Mr. LaPorto’s underlying sentiments.
To conserve taxpayer money, City officials should re-inhabit the “old” City Hall–a building which appears to have been built from the stolen plan of some fifties B-movie set-designer.

While I may not have used the same analogy that Mr. LoPorto did, I do agreee with his sentiment. The area is covered with buildings that people find visually offensive, but we don’t hear a cry to tearn them down. The irony of the situation is that Verizon building is equally reflected of “modern architecture”, and in some minds “ugly”, yet we don;t hear people calling for it to be down. I personally think the River St City Hall should remain as an example of its era’s style.